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Even at war and cut off from the world the Russian economy is growing. Driving by buoyant commodity prices. They have tech for civilian aviation in their massive military industry.…

Supersonic = +1 mach, hypersonic = +5 mach.

And the Chinese have a modern engine under development that can be used in a commercial airliner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAE_CJ-1000A

Both China and Russia are building alternatives to Boeing/Airbus commercial airliners. But are in two completely different situations. COMAC relies on international suppliers, prob…

Can your client actually pay? If not pursuing legal actions will just be a waste of money. In general breakdown payment for larger projects into smaller installments / subprojects.…

Isn't this the very point of tailwind? If you don't like it maybe just don't use tailwind.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git

Isn't Google chrome open source? It should be possible to point to the source code of whatever google.com extensions that may exist. Or is this only available in the packaged distr…

How can anyone think that Hong Kong new territories and Guantanamo, which were areas essentially taken by force and then had a dubious leasing agreement painted over them, is the s…

“Leased”

It probably is.

I was trying to be tongue in the cheek - my point is emphasizing dangers and restricting access can act as a form of marketing.

OpenAIs models are so powerful and so close to AGI that the global balance of power would flip if autocratic regimes like China were to gain API access to it. That’s what I am gett…

What is the point of making the matrix multiplication itself multithreaded (other than benchmarking)? Wouldn't it be more beneficial in practice to have the multithreadedness in th…

Yes. Solar panels, and air cons for that matter, are as cheap as ever. We europeans can easily afford this. Insisting on no air con is a cultural phenomenon. We associate it to som…

"Company President Brad Smith also revealed that China accounts for only 1.5% of Microsoft’s total revenue at a recent congressional hearing, raising questions about its future in …

I think it is hard to make a for profit general purpose language today; if you by that you mean that the developers directly pay for it. The business model has moved on; and builde…

Funny. I get 50 results for "facebook" - ending with: In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 50 already displayed. "Infini…

I cannot tell if you are joking or not. But it is obvious she is litigating in public until she gets the payoff she wants: https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik Of course a big cor…

So what about US companies like Apple, Tesla and Microsoft that operate in China and wants to make their AI offerings available there while being bound by Chinese requirements to r…

It looks like a modern statically typed multi-paradigm language with OO, exceptions, higher order functions, pattern matching, annotations, concurrency primitives etc. sitting on t…

I will give you this: The emergence of mature powerful web browsers made it possible to move a lot of functionality to the end-user's device and that gave raise to the frontend / b…